Kalopsia

Topic: January 17 2015 10:00 pm

Attention, handlers:

In light of recent regressions into the sort of behavior that caused her initial ban, staff has decided to once again ban Badb/Kalopsia from the community (Main, Mini, chat, and all related sites).

Badb's initial appeal demonstrated what appeared to be a real understanding of  the problems she had caused on the site, addressing them in depth and committing to improvement. This was complicated by a string of immediate poor behavior of the same magnitude that had resulted in her initial ban, spanning the first week after her unbanning, which nearly caused staff to reinstate her ban immediately. However, she approached a staffer, apologized, and once again displayed some self-awareness. In light of this, and general improvement over the following two months aside from one or two small incidents, staff adopted a wait-and-see approach.

Once again, however, Badb has relapsed. Over the past week, she has engaged in aggressive and insulting behavior in chat, including both dismissive rudeness and direct insults, resulting in multiple logged incidents and complaints to staff. She has also overstepped courtesy in mafia, ignoring recent requests for a more friendly atmosphere and directly insulting the rest of the thread. Normally this particular thing would be a tiny issue, but on top of the more severe and fairly constant chat hostility, it helps demonstrate a pattern effectively unchanged from the time prior to her ban.

Badb has, for years, participated cyclically in the site, escalating her negative behavior until directed to tone it down by staff, then laying low for a few months before beginning the process again. We have made it very clear over the last year that such a pattern will no longer be tolerated. She has been on final warning and beyond, and was made very aware that she was on thin ice following her appeal. This week's incidents have made it clear that, whether or not she honestly desired to change and become a more constructive member of the community, she is unable to do so at present. Her extra chances have passed.

Giving a window for appeal proved ineffective at improving her behavior, and we feel it is necessary to prioritize the health of the site over the needs of a handler who has proved a repeated toxic influence to the community. As such, this ban will be permanent.

If you have any questions about this ruling, you may PM SOTF_Help, but please note that unless you are personally involved in some fashion or your query relates to how this suspension may affect you, we will likely not discuss this matter further.

-The SOTF Staff